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Book A Constant Burden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Voysey Paun
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1351163582
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book A Constant Burden written by Margaret Voysey Paun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed classic. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work. It contains the same seminal study of families with a disabled child, based on an analysis of interviews with parents about the effects of their child's disability on their family life. Whereas much of the contemporary research assumed that the presence of such a child must constitute a problem, and attempted to read parents' responses as indicators of the family's psychological and social adjustment to this 'reality', Voysey Paun's analysis takes a radically different stance. She shows that what parents say should rather be understood as socially constructed accounts of 'normal parenting' which induce others to identify them as properly fulfilling their responsibilities as good parents. Voysey Paun's approach to the analysis and interpretation of interview responses has become a much more central theme for sociological research, instrumental in changing theories about the nature of disability and the family as expressed by sociologists, social workers and other agencies. The revised edition contains a new introduction which puts the study in its intellectual context. It will be essential reading in the sociology of health and illness, and will also be of interest to social workers and other professionals concerned with disability and family life.

Book The Burden of White Supremacy

Download or read book The Burden of White Supremacy written by David C. Atkinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1896 to 1924, motivated by fears of an irresistible wave of Asian migration and the possibility that whites might be ousted from their position of global domination, British colonists and white Americans instituted stringent legislative controls on Chinese, Japanese, and South Asian immigration. Historians of these efforts typically stress similarity and collaboration between these movements, but in this compelling study, David C. Atkinson highlights the differences in these campaigns and argues that the main factor unifying these otherwise distinctive drives was the constant tensions they caused. Drawing on documentary evidence from the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand, Atkinson traces how these exclusionary regimes drew inspiration from similar racial, economic, and strategic anxieties, but nevertheless developed idiosyncratically in the first decades of the twentieth century. Arguing that the so-called white man's burden was often white supremacy itself, Atkinson demonstrates how the tenets of absolute exclusion--meant to foster white racial, political, and economic supremacy--only inflamed dangerous tensions that threatened to undermine the British Empire, American foreign relations, and the new framework of international cooperation that followed the First World War.

Book Family Burden Coefficient in China

Download or read book Family Burden Coefficient in China written by Tian Feng and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a quantitative study of families in China that focuses specifically on the family burden coefficient. The aim is to provide a simple and accurate calculus for describing the level of family burden and thus provide guidance for policy. The topics explored include changes in China’s family and social policy, the complexity of definitions and concepts relating to the family, the theoretical and practical significance of the family burden coefficient, how that coefficient is measured based on population size at different scales, how measurement can be improved by factoring in types of family burden, and how families can be classified according to their burden profile. The relationship between the family life cycle and family burden coefficient is also addressed before policy solutions are discussed. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, Chinese studies, and family studies.

Book Liquid Moulding Technologies

Download or read book Liquid Moulding Technologies written by C D Rudd and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liquid moulding technologies such as RTM and SRIM are increasingly used for manufacturing composites in a variety of industries. Most interest stems from the automotive industry in the continuing search for weight savings, manufacturing economies and vehicle refinement. Liquid Moulding Technologies provides a unique insight into the development and use of such processes with a comprehensive description of the material, process variants, equipment, control strategies and tooling techniques used. Procedures for materials characterisation, preform and mould design are also described and the text is augmented by a number of case studies for prototype and production parts. This book is an invaluable source for both industrial moulders and those working in research and development.

Book NATO   s Burden Sharing Disputes

Download or read book NATO s Burden Sharing Disputes written by Tommi Koivula and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). It also belongs to one of the most studied issues within NATO with distinguishable traditions and schools of thought. However, this pertinent question has been rarely discussed extensively by academics. The key idea of the book is to make burden-sharing more understandable as a historical, contemporary and future phenomenon. The authors take a comprehensive look at what is actually meant with burden-sharing and how it has evolved as a concept and a real-life phenomenon through the 70 years of NATO’s existence.

Book The Burden of Sympathy

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Karp
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2002-05-23
  • ISBN : 0198028709
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Burden of Sympathy written by David A. Karp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the limits of sympathy in dealing with another person's troubles? Where do we draw the line between caring for a loved one, and being swallowed up emotionally by the obligation to do so? Quite simply, what do we owe each other? In this vivid and thoughtful study, David Karp chronicles the experiences of the family members of the mentally ill, and how they draw "boundaries of sympathy" to avoid being engulfed by the day-to-day suffering of a loved one. Working from sixty extensive interviews, the author reveals striking similarities in the experiences of caregivers: the feelings of shame, fear, guilt and powerlessness in the face of a socially stigmatized illness; the frustration of navigating the complex network of bureaucracies that govern the mental health system; and most of all, the difficulty negotiating an "appropriate" level of involvement with the mentally ill loved one while maintaining enough distance for personal health. Throughout the narratives, Karp sensitively explores the overarching question of how people strike an equilibrium between reason and emotion, between head and heart, when caring for a catastrophically ill person. The Burden of Sympathy concludes with a critical look at what it means to be a moral and caring person at the turn of the century in America, when powerful cultural messages spell out two contradictory imperatives: pursue personal fulfillment at any cost and care for the family at any cost. An insightful, deeply caring look at mental illness and at the larger picture of contemporary values, The Burden of Sympathy is required reading for caregivers of all kinds, and for anyone seeking broader understanding of human responsibility in the postmodern world.

Book The Effects of a Maintained Body Burden of Polonium in the Rat

Download or read book The Effects of a Maintained Body Burden of Polonium in the Rat written by James Newell Stannard and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Walters
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2003-04-07
  • ISBN : 9781429982146
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Burden written by Tony Walters and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burden, a twenty-one-year-old grocery store clerk in Walterboro, South Carolina, has two things on his mind: suicide and sex. Suicide because of overwhelming guilt for his role in the death of a beloved cousin. Sex because if you live in a small Southern town stuffed with unfulfilled wives and their vengeful men, it's got to be a great way to go. Of course with such a plan there are bound to be complications: second thoughts, husbands who won't take the bait, and most surprising of all to Burden himself, the return to town of the one woman it might be worth staying alive for. Burden's women are unforgettable: Maude, whose kneecaps can make a man fall to the floor in a swoon and married to the town's doctor, a much older man not possibly capable of living up to those kneecaps or the woman who goes with them. Pru, whose passion for afternoon lovemaking is close to insatiable, and whose long-haul truckdriving husband Eugene is rarely on the scene to accommodate. Then there's Jo, a different creature altogether - the woman Burden might truly love but who he seems to have let slip from his grasp. Readers of Clyde Edgerton and Charles Portis will find themselves happily at home in this lyrical and funny novel with the feckless hero who keeps trying to end it all...but can't.

Book The Burden of Government

Download or read book The Burden of Government written by Edwin S. Mills and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Burdens of Freedom

Download or read book Burdens of Freedom written by Lawrence M. Mead and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.

Book Releasing the Burden

Download or read book Releasing the Burden written by Rikroses Books and E-books and published by . This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel exhausted, weighed down by expectations, and constantly striving for control? Are you seeking a path to deeper fulfillment and a lighter way of being? If so, then "Releasing the Burden: A Journey towards Lighter Living and Deeper Fulfillment" is your guide to personal transformation. In this powerful book, you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery, shedding outdated beliefs, releasing limiting attachments, and embracing a more mindful and present-moment way of living. Discover the power of gratitude, forgiveness, and setting healthy boundaries to create a life filled with joy, purpose, and passion. Learn how to simplify your life, declutter your space, and reconnect with the natural world. Build supportive relationships, develop healthy habits, and face challenges with courage and resilience. "Releasing the Burden" is not just a book; it's an invitation to a lighter, fuller life.

Book Administration

Download or read book Administration written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes critical reviews.

Book Management and Administration

Download or read book Management and Administration written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes critical reviews.

Book Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries

Download or read book Management and Administration in Manufacturing Industries written by Leon Pratt Alford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Electric Journal

Download or read book The Electric Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

Download or read book Publications written by Ballad Society and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What is the Administration s Record in Relieving Burden on Small Business

Download or read book What is the Administration s Record in Relieving Burden on Small Business written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: